The 19-member Swing Street Big Band will play for a night of social dancing on Saturday, Dec. 1 to kick off the Christmas holiday season at Fairfield Glade at the Community and Conference Center.

It will feature a wide variety of holiday season music performed by outstanding musicians from East Tennessee including Tom Lundberg, Phil Barham, Chuck Lyons and John Bohlen. Vocalists include Rusty McClanahan and Wanda Hepburn.

Lundberg is the lead trombone player and founding member of the Knoxville Jazz Orchestra and a brass instructor at Maryville College, Maryville, and Pellissippi State Community College, Knoxville.

Barham is head of the saxophone department in the music school at Tennessee Technological University, Cookeville.

Lyons is a charter member of the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass.

Bohlen is a member of the Southern Stars Symphonic Brass and the Cookeville Community Band.

McClanahan has performed in two Cumberland County Playhouse productions, as well as community concerts at Crossville’s historic Palace Theater.

Hepburn has been part of Fairfield Glade big band performances since 1997.

The Swing Street Big Band carries on the 15-year tradition of Fairfield Glade social dances under the direction of saxophone player William Schneider, a retired commercial airline pilot.

The band will play three, 45-minute sets during its three-hour dance which begins at 7 P.M. Music will include a wide variety of ballroom tempos including swing, fox trot, tango, waltz, cha cha, and rumba. Tables seat eight persons and may be reserved. Beverages will be available for purchase. Guests may bring snacks.

The Fairfield Glade Community and Conference Center is at 128 Stonehenge Road, six miles north of I-40 (Exist 322, Peavine Road). Tickets are $13.50 per person, including tax.

Reservations can be made and tickets paid prior to the event at the Center. Phone reservations may be charged to a credit card by calling the Center at 931-484-3722.